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TIL that according to government regulations, all pet food must be fit for human consumption.

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XEyb6 TIL: The USA Owns 1 Acre of Land in Mexico City that Serves as a Cemetery for Soldiers Killed in the Mexican-American War. 170 Years Later, 813 Americans are Still Buried Here.
OGy8X TIL The Green Bay Packers (NFL) is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States
6v1J TIL if you rub a grasshopper’s hind leg for five seconds every minute for four hours, it will trigger its brain to transform, swarm, and become locust
X9aj TIL - the ancient Greek astronomer Eratosthenes of Cyrene, proved that the earth was round in 240 B.C. and also came up with latitude/longitude and was able to calculate the earth’s circumference within 2%.
7vJp TIL of Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Emilie & Marie Dionne, the first quintuplets to have survived their infancy. Instant celebrities, they were taken from their parents by the Canadian government, who raised them for the first 9 years of their lives in a major tourist attraction known as “Quintland”